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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-05-04
District Court Summons.

District Court Summons.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
NJ Mower.-ss.
District Court, Tenth Judicial District
Ellis Briggs, Plaintiff, VS.. Cornelius Quirk
and Ward Huntington, Defendants.
The State of Minnesota to the above named
Defendants:
You and each of you, are hereby summoned
and required to answer the complaint in the
with the clerk of said Court, at his office, in
said county, and to serve a copy of you an
wer to the complaint on the subscriber, at
his office in the City of Austin IN the County
days after the service of this m on
you, exclusive of the day of such service, and
If you fail to answer the said complaint with
ton will apply to the Court Tor the relief de-
manded in said complaint.
Dated, Austin. Mimi. May 2. a: D., 1887
LAFAYETTE FRENCH.
Plaintiffs Attorney.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-27
ANN PAMELA CUNNINGHAM,
The President OF the MOunt Vernon
Association.

The scheme for buying Mount
Vernon from its owner, John Au-
gustine Washington. so as to make
public property of the home and
tomb of "the Father Of his Scum
try" originated with Miss Ann
Pamela Cunningham, Of South Caro-
lima, q sister of the famous Charles
ton editor aud duelist, John A. Gun
ningham. The project was conceived
some time after 1850, and in ten
years had been completed. The cost
Of the estate, 200 acres, was 500, 900.
Miss Cunningham organized with
oonsummate tact aud success one Of
the most active public benefit socie-
ties ever known. Her vice regeet
for Virginia was the famous retired
actress, Anna Cora Richie for Ala
bama it was the most noted society
woman of America, Nine. 0ctavia
Walton LIE Vert; for Florida, Mrs.
Catherine Willis Murat. The great
orators of the period, Everett, Phil
lips, Yancey, Pryor, Henry A. Wise
and others gave their eloquence to
urge onward the work Of the society.
The Free and Accepted Masons lent
the Influence Of their lodges to it,
the Richmond and other Virginia
lodges being especially generous con-
tributors to the fund. Virginia gave
charter to the association, and
through these and many stirring cpl.
soles, the great work was finished
and the titles to the property I aus
ferred. Mount Vernon is in better
condition now than it ever has been
since the death of George Washing
ton,s sssSN - 60 -
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the drawer, reserved especially for
its use, as tenderly ss il il had been
the girls heart itself"
Mrs. Paran Stevens, who has been
sued for damages by Miss Gibbons, a
former tenant, maintains herself
as a society leader, despite her hum
BILE origin and strenuous ways. This
is partly due to her wealth, partly to
her connections with the English
nobility, and partly to her own merry
wit. She can say as many laughable
things in an hour as most society
women do in a year. When she built
the Victoria Hotel, just above Madi-
son Square, she had the lower floor
fitted up for stores. Pierre Loril-
lard, jr., the millionaire tobacconist,
was much grieved when he saw these
preparations, and meeting Mrs. Stew
ems one evening, he said:
II see, Mr.. Stevens, that there are
to be shops under the new hotel, and
| am very sorry. Don't you think
we should try to keep our dear old
Fifth avenue free from trade? There
are too many shops on the avenue
already"
Mrs. Stevens, with just the suspi-
cion of a twinkle in her eyes, re-
piled:
"Oh! l don't think you will OBJ
ject, Mr.. Lorillard, when you see the
building finished. There will be a
tobacco store in the corner"
The people who shrunk with sensi-
tiveness from elbow touch of trade
could only shrink and lament and
move away. They could not oppose
the movement any more than. King
Canute could stop the flow of the
tides. There were no restrictions in
the deeds of Fifth avenue property,
and it was too late to form an anti
trade combination of owners, such as
those which control some OF the cross
streets. There are blocks on Murray
Hill and some away up town in the
new districts reserved exclusively
for residences, either by agreement
or by deed stipulation, but Fifth ave.
nue. owners are not hampered in that
way, and the great thoroughfare of
style is doomed. The occupation by
business has already passed the resi-
dences of the Astors and is crowding
the Vanderbilts' new mansions.
The auction sale of the Academy
Of Music is token of the up town
movement; but, more than that, it
is proof that the borders of "soci-
ETY." have of late been rapidly ex-
banded. There was a time when
New York was 80 small that a single
circle of rich, well bred families
corld fairly claim to be "our best
society" 1t has long ceased to be
so. There are dozens of cliques
which are atop, and the Astor one is
not higher than the others. 1t is
much easier today to get into that
particular social section than into
some others that could be named.
Well, in the old times the Academy
of Music, with its proprietary boxes,
was big enough to hold the nabobs.
But there came a time when, instead
of excluding the rest of the fashion
able world, they were themselves in
danger of exclusion. The Metropol-
itan Opera House was built, with its
multiplied number of boxes, and the
Academy families had to scramble
into the new concern to save them
selves. They did it, and the old
house is abandoned. CLARA BELL.
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and pay the expenses Of converts
who come to this country, and to as
sist them to start III fife; if they
prefer to educate their children in
their own way. they certainly ought
to be allowed to do 80, 1t is po-
lygamy that has brought upon the
Mormons tb cir chief troubles in the
past; it is yJolygamy that in the eyes
Of the cou ntry and of Congress justi-
fies the legislation Of the present
session. With its disappearance the
power of the Federal Government to
make laws against Mormonism will
be much limited.
But there are other influences at
work to break down Mormon theoc-
racy. Chief among these are the ex-
tension OF the railroads, the operat-
ing and development OF the mines
and the consequent increase of the
Gentle population. These make the
friction of dual government greater
and greater, and are certain to edu-
cate the Mormon masses gradually
away from the old, system. 1t will
not be done suddenly, nor can it be
fastened much by harsh laws. The
men and women who pushed hand
carts, each loaded with ITO pounds
of clothing and bedding from Iowa
City, 1900 miles, across the plains
and over the mountains, overtaken
by winter when still 500 miles from
the promised land; who saw their
cattle stray or die Of Overwork; who
struggled on in silence and sorrow,
some Of their number dying outright,
more dying of disease engendered by
want, and many falling exhausted by
the way to be frozen to death or be
torn in pieces by the wolves-those
people whose faith never tagged
when every morning they saw from
three to fifteen of their number cold
in death, are not 10 be easily coerced
into a surrender by harsh laws passed
by Congress.
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HUT OF THE FIRST MORMON SETTLER
IN UTAH,


The more recent converts, too,
have many reasons to stand firm in
the faith. Gathered from among the
most wretchedly poor of the people of
Europe, where no prospect of relief
parted the clouds of their hopeless
misery; taken out of their vile sur
roundings, transported across the
ocean and three -fourths of the way
across this continent; put in posses
sion of fertile tract of land and
supplied with water to irrigate it; as
sisted to rear shelter over the heads
of their wives and children and to
raise their first crop, it is difficult to
convince them when all this has been
paid for out of the product of the
new farm, and the man who was liv-
ing in hopeless poverty in his Old
World home finds himself IN COM
Portable circumstances in Utah, that
the Mormon Church to which they
are indebted for all they have and all
they are is not of God. These peo-
pie are of the stuff that martyrs are
made of
While, therefore, | anticipate the
final downfall of Mormonism as a
theocratic form of government and
the establishment Of a true Republic
in its place, / believe that the revo-
luton will be slow one. Every
piece of hostile legislation will be re-
sisted in the courts. This new law
will be attacked on all sides, and it
will be strange if some vulnerable
points are not found in it. But
when obliged to do so the saints will
yield gracefully. There will be no
foreible resistance aud war with de-
struction and confscation. Nor will
there be sudden exodus, as there
was from Illinois and Iowa. Too
large proportion Of the people are
anchored to the soil. They woul 1
not abandon their property; it would
take years to dispose of it; there is
no place for them to go to. SO there
will be Mormon question for many
years to como. z. Ia. WHITE.
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The repeal Of the charter Of tho
Emigration Society-the instrument
through which the expenses Of bring
ing converts from the old world and
of establishing them in Mormon set
Elements is paid-and the confsca-
ton of its funds lit will, of course,
be found to be without funds when
its affairs come to be wound up) will
not destroy this theocratic oligarchy.
Some other means of raising and
disbursing the money will be devised.
The diversion OF the property of the
church 10 the support Of schools will
not do it. The notification of all
grants of water privileges, grazing
privileges, etc., not made under
United States laws will not do it.
The essential principles themselves
of Mormonism will have to be aban-
doneG.
To require the Church of Jesus
Christ OF Latter Day Saints to aban-
don thoocracy is like demanding Of
the Roman Catholic Church that it
shall renounce Popery; or of the
Protestant Episcopal Church that it
shall give up the Apostles Creed,
and OF the Congregational Church
that it shall accept government by
bishops. Gould that be done by lawP
The bill in question confers extra
ordinary powers upon the President
aud upon the government OF the
Territory. But, it should be re-
membered, the exercise of those
powers can only be temporary. Utah
already has population enough to be-
come State. The Territorial form
OF government is in theory, and has
been in practice, heretofore, only an
ad interim arrangement devised to
extend the protection of the laws
over people too few in numbers or
too widely scattered to govern them
selves as a State. But Utah long
ago had sufficient population to be-
come State. The delay in granting
its request for admission has only
been that the Federal Government
might still have jurisdiction OF the
question Of polygamy, which it
would not have if Utah was a State |;
and because, in whatever words its
constitution might be drawn, the
United States could not guarantee it
. republican form Of government
while the relations Of the Mormon
people to their church remain as
they are.
And | see no reason to expect
change. The Mormons and the re-
maiuder Of the people Of the United
States have no common ground what
ever. As a Gentle resident of Salt
Lake City wIote ten years ago.
Either the Mormon theory of gov
ernment is true in all particulars, in
which case the Federal officials are
usurpers, and the Gentiles intruders
and rebels against the Kingdom of
God, or it is false in every partiou-
lar, and must be totally subverted.
1t is impossible that a divinely in
spired priesthood, claiming civil rule
and authority in all things, and a
class Of citizens whe maintain the
paramount authority Of a man made
constitution, can coalesce. If the
saints are right, they will eventually
drive us all out Of Utah, just as their
great c1amplars, the Israelites, did
the Canaanites, ADD setup the King
dom of God in its purity; if we are
right. we will eventually break in
pieces every vestige of the temporal
rule OF the priesthood, reduce the
institution from . government TO a
church and establish Republic in
Utah like that in Colorado"
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-27
THEODORE TILTON IN PARIS.
Mistaken for the Brother of Fred
ePick DOUGLASS.

Since Theodore Tilton abandoned
Brooklyn as a place of permanent
residence he has put in the larger
portion of his time in Paris. A cor
respondent from that abode of many
Americans writes as follows: Fred
Douglass and his wife have been in
Paris this winter-for that matter
may be here still-and have received
much polite attention from section
of the American colony. Douglass
and Theodore Tilton had been
friends in the old days, and naturally
they went about good deal together
now that they we're met again. The
two heavy, large featured, distin-
guished looking men, with their mas
sive heads of white hair, attracted
very general notice on the boule-
wards, One day they dined together
at a restaurant, and talked together
for long time. A Frenchman sat
near and watched them attentively.
A day or two afterward Mr.. Tilton
came alone to this ife. The French
man, after some hesitation, ap-
preached him and politely asked for
permission to put a question. Mr..
Tilton said, Certainly, if you will
speak slowly, for my French is still
very imperfect. Then the stranger
said: when | saw you and your
brother together here, although l
could, of course, understand nothing
that you said, | made up my mind
from the refined meditation of your
voices that you must both be orators.
l should like to ask if in England it
is usual to have two brothers so
equally gifted and experienced in
public speakipR."
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been thus far to the Mormons brit
shadow, except as they have no. and
then made themselves amen'4ble to
its penalties. The church mas been
the real government fhey have
known.
TIE problem now is: Flow can this
theocracy that is so 'antagonistic to
the fundamental principles upon
which all governmeD. t in this country
is founded be brob. en down and q
Republican form 'of government set
up in its placer The destruction OF
poligamy will not do it, desirable as
that is. Legislation has been chiefly
aimed at that, and other influences
even more pot are working against
it. President John Taylor and
Apostle George Q. Cannen, the most
influential men in the church, are
now fugiti yes, both having been in,
dicted fer bigamy in the United
States Court. But / am assured it
has not been necessary for either
one OF them to leave Salt Lake City.
With five -sixths Of the population
friendly to them it is an easy matter
to keep them ont Of the hands of the
United States Deputy Marshal.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-27
Probate Court Sale
H EAL STATE.

No. $40, K. DIN the Probate Court Of
Shelby County, Tennessee-John League,
Administrator of the estate of Matte ID.
Bolton, deceased, VS.. W. l.. Sig or OF al,
10y virtue of decree for sale in this cause
ID / will sal, at public auction, to the
highest bidder, in front Of the Courthouse
door, ON Main street, Memphis, Tenn, on
Saturday, March IL, 1857,
within legal hours, the following de, cribed
real estate towit: 81 66-l00 acres Of land in
the Third Civil District Of Shelby county,
Tennessee, bounded on the north by lands OF
Mrs. X. +. Hoist, east BY the land Of -
Hill, on the south by the land Of G. r.
Wynne, and on the west by the land of -
SiEler, and moro fully described as follows,
toWit;
Lot No. l, beginning at the northeast cor
ner o. the original tract at q stake; thence
south u degrees west seven links TO a poplar
marked ID. O. t.; thence north ~ degrees
east 80 links to a black gum marked 8. g. (;
thence south 70 de. lees 10 seconds west
l26 $40 p0les to stake SO links west ola box
elder; thence west g. 81 100 poles TO a stake
on the south boundary line: thence south 81
degrees west "A links to black oaki thence
north lo $40 poles to q stake on the north
boundary line 10 forked locust pointerl |;
thence east with SAID line 81 2T-lO0 poles to
the beginning, containing one-third Of the
tract (i0), Of y. seven nd 66-lO0 acres.
Terms Of Sale-0ne-half cash, the remain
ing one-hAlf on q credit Of twelve months,
purchaser to execute note, and lien will be
retained to secure unpaid purchase money.
p. ]. oUIGLEY. Clerk.
By Thomas B. CrepshaW, d. @.
John League and j. p. Sykes, Solicitors.
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When l say that the theocratio
government Of Utah defes the Fed
eral authority | don't mean that it
does it with force and arms, as when
the Mormons drove the United
States Judges out of the Territory
and President Buchanan sent out to
Utah . militaryexpedition under the
command of Albert Sidney Johnston
to crush out a rebellion that even
then had 20 palpable existence, and
to force Governor upon the people,
assuming beforehand that he would
be rejected. But what l do say is
that there is no government in Utah
today, as far as the Mormons are
concerned, except that of the church.
The Federal Government il reoog-
mixed and respected by the Geutiles,
and is appealed to whenGentiles and
Mormons disagree, and lately it has
broken in occasionally and brought
out polygamist for punishment as
cowboy cuts out" q bullock from n
corral, which he has selected for
slaughter.
But as to all their own internal af-
fairs tho Mormons are law unto
themselves. They are organised int }
stakes" are governed by the Bish-
ops, pay tithes to the church and act
as though there was no such thing as
the United States Government. The
church has entire control of the
water avail liable for irrigation. and AZ
cultivation is impossible without ir-
rigation, in effect no GENTLE is al
lowed 20 obtain any agricultural
lands. All the good grazing tracts
have been granted to Mormons, who
will not sell them to Gentiles. Every
function Of civil government is per-
formed by the church or its agents,
and AZ the people are, as q rule, in
dustrious, peaceable citizens, vio-
lAting none Of the laws of the United
States, there is no way 10 assert the
authority of the Federal Government.
1t is no crime, for instance, when
two Mormors disagree, for them to
submit the cause OF their dispute to
a Bishop for adjustment; there is no
law, and can be none, against the
payment Of money for the support
Of q church or of institutions I'M
der its control, even though those
institutions perform some OF the
acts that are performed by
civil government elsewhere. The
Federal Government has therefore
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-27
GOING.
Moving about the quiet ways.

Moving about the quiet ways,
Sitting beside the hearth,
Joining us best she can and may
In the careless household mirth:
Yet always through the haunted night,
As through the restless day,
FeelinR-anOther hour Is passed
or the time that aies away.
Tho last frail strand Of the cable
Is parting slow and sure,
That never again TO the harbor side
My bonnie boat will moor.
My bonnie boat that may come again,
God temper the wave and Windi
To gladden. sad eyes and learning hearts
That now are lett behind;
May come again, but not to lilo
safe by the old home shore;
The anchor Of youth Is almost weighed;
They will east II never more.
And It's oh, and it's oh, for the sinking
dread,
It's oh for the climbing sorrow,
As ever tje cruel, creeping night
Brings on the weary morrow
LSye that 10 true must hush itself.
Nor pain by its useless cry,
For the young must 30, and the old must
bear,
And time goes by, goes by.
All he Year RosRd.
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TIRE MORMON TEMPLE, SALT LAKE


Which will it boz | think the lat
ter. But the revolution will be q
slow one. Polygamy will probably
disappear first, aud it would not be
strange If its overthrow strengthened
rather than weakened the Mormon
Church, 1t has been this particular
feature Of the institution against
which popula" indignation has been
aroused throughout the land, and l
fear that it would be far more diff
cult to keep up an interest in = cru
SADIE against theocracy as such than
against the Disgusting practices OF
plural marriages. II the Mormons
were moral, industrious, peaCeable,
violated no laws, the average citizen
Of the United States would say that
if they prefer to submit their dis
putes TO q bishop for adjustment in
stead Of a civil Justice, and if they
are willing to pay one-tenth OF all
they prOduce for the support OF the
church and its institutions; if they
desire TO send missionaries abroad
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Trustees sale.

FINDER and by virtue Of . certain in
u strument Of writing, 10 which one An
drew Young Is . party, and which is OF
record in the Registers once Of Shelby
county. Tennessee, in book l62, page SAT,
will, on
Monday, 9Ist day OF March, 1887,
offer for sale at public cutlery, for cash, to the
highest bidder, between the hours OF IL am.
and p. M, on the southwest corner OF Main
and Madison streets, Memphis, the following
real ss'ste, iyi9s In shelby county, Tonnes
as lot No, 7, on the eest aide Of Bofland ave-
nue., having front on said avenue Of so feet
and running back between parallel lines 40
feet, more or less, and having ON II the south
frame; this lot being one Of the lots in the
Bor and subdivision.
Tbs property viii be sold free from the
equity Of redemptl N.
- 1HB q 11&A s'W.'D. BEARD, Trustee.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-02-25

There are few men in Washington bet
ter known or better liked than David K.
Cartier, Chief Justice Of the Supreme
Court of the District. His ability as a
lawEDr. his rcctituue as Il Judge his
genial qualities as man, all combine to
make him "a iayoTite.
Among his earthly possessions he owns
fine rancho at Great Bend. Kansas.
This place is in charge of his son.
Young Cartier loves the good things Of
life. The good things of life cost money.
and sometimes the young man has felt
it necessary to make a draft on his fond
father.
Last spring Judge Cartier informed his
son that he would pay him a visit during
the summer vacation Of court The
young man saw mis- opportunity and inn
proved it. Going to a friendly rauchcrO.
he borrowed a "bunch of cattle: T. G..
about a hundred head. These he drove
over to his own rancho.
When the senior Cartier arrived. the
son took him out and showed him the
fine bunch of cattle he had bought at
a bargain The elder Cartier was de
lighted, and when the yOunCster ex-
planned that he needed a couple Of
thousands Of dollars to finish paying for
the cattle, he at once gave his check for
the amount.
After the Judge had completed his
visit. the son cashed the check. returned
the '.5unCh of cattle to his friend and
the time me and his fellOw-ranchero had
is stin spoken of approvingly by the
Great Bcndors.-T The Hatchet.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-02-25
SiciIian Superstitions.

The Sicilians are charmfnglv supersti-
uous. They stlll believe that the govern
menL has the power to give and cure
cholera at its pleasure-that it has al its
disposition coutre, as they say in their
dialect, specific against the It-alse
In Le worst time Of the u.a..uc. tho
Siclltau5 have been heard TO cry out:
Come, come, its not so bad: we'll
som .." rid az "a" cholera. Il .a--. VEN
nen- viii put a stop TO it when there are
5000 dead"
Aa auve lote Of equal SAVIOR il told of
a NoH- ~.e.iiau who, afflicted with home
~lc..t.5- in Italy, lOuEed to return to his
'-1Te Sicily. Moving rc-rIss-iy about
t0" docks for sometime, he happcns to
meet a sea captain of his own race. De
l.-l,ci WIKI -ue chance, he impiorc- him
10 take him nu board his vessel and land
him anywhere on the island
willingly" said The captain, on one
condition"
Name It; Isubscribe to it in adj
vance"
That you will give US the antidote
for cholera"
II haven't any antidote for cholera.
my man ~
What nOnsensei Don't YOU belong
to the government? Are you not the son
OF our Mayor: - Inglesidc.